Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-10-28

neck. Soon after there was a telephone
message from the foreman OF the jury TO
say that the patient suffered in the left
side from muscular contractions, convuls-
i've starts and a rigid body. When the
drug was placed on the right side Of the
nape tin imagination the same phenom-
enon took place.
An experiment, or rather experiments,
was made on subjects who were brought
in TO tue operator. They had no idea
what DIR. Luys was going TO use. Al
cohol when put to the nape in a tube
no larger than homeopathist 8 vial and
Theoretically sealed produced exactly the
same effect as if imbibed at bar. Alb
sinthe, haschish. opium, morphine, beer,
champagne, tea and coffee were in sue
cession tried with their characteristic ef-
fects. But 1.-The cup which cheers but
not inebriates" was found too exciting
for French neuropaths. Valerian caused
the deepest sadness. The thoughtso of the
patient were centered in a grave. She
was impelled irresistibly to stoop down
and scratch the ground, and thought her.
self in cemetery exhuming a deceased
relative whom she loved. Under the IL
lusion she fancied herself picking up
bones belonging to this skeleton, which
she handled with tender reverence, and
when there was an imaginary mound of
them she placed, with dep drawn sighs
and tears and genuflections, a cross above
them. Under the influence Of haschish
everything looked rosy and gayety pre-.
vailed.
The subject was a young girl, very
fond of the drama. She fancied herself
on the stage and playing part which
suited her to perfection. 1t was in o
boufTe opera and she sang her score ad-
mirably. The sentiments were expressed
with delicate feeling, DR.. Luys can, ao-
cording to the substances he uses, run
through the whole gamut OF human pas
sions and emotions.
What is most strange is that no trace
of the fictitious world in which the
hypnotized subject has been wandering
remains when real consciousness is re-
stored. Ii is very rare for even the idea
vi lldN lllE W NlNt
the awakening from the hypnotic trance.
DIR, Luys says that hypnotic suggestion
sometimes has periods of incubation more
or less long. The subject is at first gently
drawn TO do certain thing or things,
and then the drawing becomes an irresis-
tible impulse. They are first as if tempted
and then as if possessed. They can no
more help themselves than "A man who
had got 10 the verge of Niagara Falls in a
boat could help going over.
DIR. Roger moved that the academy
name a commission to inquire into hyp-
motto suggestion, near and at distance.
DR.. Bronarlcl supported linn. He said:
"All that DR.. Luys has alleged and shown
cannot fail to make noise throughout
the world. Nobody but NM. Burot and
Bouron have gone SO far as DIR. Luys.
He net only forces on the attention of the
academy the question Of hypnotism, but
of persons being affected 10y poisonous
substances which do not penetrate or ii
may bt even touch their bodies. This is
from a legal point Of view great danger.
A great social responsibility is involved
in the matter. 1t is the duty Of the academy
: to have the experiments Of DIR. Luys re-
peated, with Others that bear upon them" I"
Paris Cor. New York Tribune.